Burayka
| Burayka | |
|---|---|
  Burayka | |
| Also spelled | Bureika[1] |
| Subdistrict | Haifa |
| Coordinates | 32°33′29.05″N 34°58′39.40″E / 32.5580694°N 34.9776111°ECoordinates: 32°33′29.05″N 34°58′39.40″E / 32.5580694°N 34.9776111°E |
| Palestine grid | 148/213 |
| Population | 290 (1945) |
| Date of depopulation | May 5, 1948[1] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Influence of nearby town's fall |
Burayka was a Palestinian Arab village in the Haifa Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 5, 1948. It was located 29 km south of Haifa.
A school, founded in 1889 during the Ottoman period, was located in the village, but was closed during the British Mandate period.
In 1945 the village had a population of 290.
Today, a civilian explosives factory is located on the site.[2]
References
- 1 2 Morris, 2004, p. xviii, village #161. Also gives cause of depopulation.
- ↑ "תעשיות חרושת חומרי נפץ - היסטוריה" [Explosives industries - History]. Retrieved 30 November 2010.
Bibliography
- Barron, J. B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922. Government of Palestine.
- Conder, Claude Reignier; Kitchener, H. H. (1882). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. 2. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. (p.41)
- Hadawi, Sami (1970). "Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine". Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center.
- Khalidi, Walid (1992). All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies. ISBN 0-88728-224-5.
- Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas. Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
- Morris, Benny (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6.
- Palmer, E. H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. (p.146)
External links
- Welcome To Burayka
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 8: IAA, Wikimedia commons
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